Mary Jenkins Community Praise House is a historic

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located on Saint Helena Island near

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. It was built about 1900, and is a narrow, one-story gable roofed building of frame construction with the entrance in the gable end. It is significant as one of four known extant African-American praise houses on St. Helena Island. The building remains in use. It was listed in the

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in 1989.

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